[refurb]

As Antonin Scalia (Supreme Court Justice) said to the US Senate ..."learning to love the gridlock"

"And I hear Americans saying this nowadays, and there's a lot of it going around. They talk about a "dysfunctional government" because there's disagreement.

And the Framers would have said, "Yes, that's exactly the way we set it up. We wanted this to be power contradicting power -- because the main ill that beset us" -- as Hamilton said in The Federalist when he talked about a separate Senate -- He said, "Yes, it seems inconvenient, but inasmuch as the main ill that besets us is an excess of legislation, it won't be so bad."

This is 1787 -- he didn't know what an excess of legislation was."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggz_gd--UO0

[Racing0461]

Yep, too bad individual states don't seem to have the same guardrails. States that are d/d/d or r/r/r have free reign to pass whatever they want based on which way the wind blows.